Ben and Verse was originally published in 38 monthly parts. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of Ben Franklin's birth, we've published the entire series here.

On this website you'll find quotations from Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, each with an interpretation as a snappy modern verse 'jingle' (we're sure Ben, always a modernist, would approve!). The quotations are organised by subject - pick one from the list below and start your journey through the wit and wisdom of Ben!

Advice - Ancestry	Anger - Anti-Social	Bad Habits	Bragging & Discretion
Budgeting - Civility	Conscience - Death	Debt - Diet	Dirt - Doctors
Education - Faith	Faith	Faking & Sincerity	Flattery - Gabbing
Giving - Gratitude	Greed - Griping	Health - History	Judgement - Lawyers
Laziness - Leadership	Learning - Love's Cures	Luck - Luck & Sweat	Marriage
Maturing - Memory	Moderation - Nonsense	Nostalgia - Passion	Patience - Planning
Pleasures - Pride	Privacy - Procrastination	Promises - Revenge	Satire - Self-Deception
Self-Destruction	Self-Interest	Serenity & Discontent	Sleep
Stinginess - Success	Temperance - Time	Underrating - Vice	Virtue & Corruption
Visiting - Warning Signs	Wise Guys - Wishes

(Note that you can see the above list on any verse page by clicking 'Show subject index')
To download all of Ben and Verse (plus other articles and index/cross-reference) in a single
'Ben to Go' e-Book, click here.

Some Rights Reserved

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
(In other words, please feel free to quote any part of this website at any length,
attributing the quote to John D. McCall, preferably with a reference to the website)
Rev 2010-1.